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Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

  • @TokenBoomerEnglish
    7•1 month ago

    Even the Communist Party of China doesn’t think China is communist:

    In the party’s official narrative, socialism with Chinese characteristics is Marxism adapted to Chinese conditions and a product of scientific socialism. The theory stipulated that China was in the primary stage of socialism due to its relatively low level of material wealth and needed to engage in economic growth before it pursued a more egalitarian form of socialism, which in turn would lead to a communist societydescribed in Marxist orthodoxy.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      Ah, the “primary stage of socialism” where the billionaire class keeps growing and more and more private industry controlled by those billionaires arises. Yes, they’ll get there any day now.

      • @TokenBoomerEnglish
        -2•1 month ago

        Maybe they won’t get there. Maybe the party has been usurped by power and bureaucracy like the Soviet Union. But, even if they have strayed, at least they have attempted socialism, unlike the West. Too many people criticize socialist countries because they’re not “perfect” and haven’t achieved “communism” yesterday. Social-political change is messy, and the transition takes time.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          2•1 month ago

          Yes! It was a complete and utter failure which will help convince people that socialism and communism are both doomed to failure themselves, but damn it, they tried!

          • @TokenBoomerEnglish
            0•1 month ago

            You would rather we not try at all? Be wary, cynicism will get us nowhere.

            • Flying SquidMEnglish
              2•1 month ago

              We? Are you the Chinese government? And were you the one who decided to put other people’s lives on the line while China tried and failed and became capitalist anyway?

                • Flying SquidMEnglish
                  1•1 month ago

                  I see, so humanity tried communism and failed and therefore the 45 million people who died in China’s Great Leap Forward’s deaths were justified. Because China meant well.

                  • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                    1•1 month ago

                    Sorry you’re not feeling great. None of this matters in the great scheme of things:

                    At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.